The Imperial Home Decor scheme has agreed a £5m medically underwritten buyout of its defined contribution (DC) section in the first such deal to be publicly announced.
Asset-backed funding arrangements are a "house of cards" that could run counter to European law banning schemes from making employer-related investments, says a lawyer.
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has warned that the £630m levy paid by schemes to fund the organisation is likely to rise by an average of approximately 10% in September.
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is expanding its compliance unit to enable it to ‘proactively investigate' companies and industries with a high risk of failure to comply with auto-enrolment duties.
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Pensions minister Steve Webb has pledged to give the raft of legislation working its way through parliament time to bed in, and not introduce any more major reforms.
"Shocking" local variations in early death rates have been revealed by a Public Health England (PHE) website that ranks local authorities according to levels of avoidable deaths.
RPMI has appointed Paul Faulkner as head of pensions operations for rail services.
The market for buy-ins and buyouts in 2012 is likely to exceed the £5bn of business conducted in each of the last few years, according to research from Aon Hewitt.
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